List of one-shot music videos

This is a list of one-shot music videos filmed in one long take by a single camera.

Music videos which are edited to give the impression they were filmed in a single take but in fact are not, are listed in the section in this article Videos seemingly shot in one take.

One of the most famous music video directors for this genre is Michel Gondry, who has done many of his videos in this style, while among artists OK Go often took advantage of the one-shot filming features to produce intricate visuals.

Examples

Artist	Song	Year	Note
Shakatak	Down on the Street	1984
Steve Perry	Foolish Heart	1984
Tommy Shaw	Girls With Guns	1984
Janet Jackson	When I Think of You	1986
Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush	Don't Give Up	1986
The Psychedelic Furs	Angels Don't Cry	1986
The Replacements	Bastards of Young	1986
Bruce Springsteen	Brilliant Disguise	1987
Mental as Anything	He's Just No Good for You	1987
Godley & Creme	10,000 Angels	1988
Underworld	Underneath The Radar	1988
The Grapes of Wrath	All the Things I Wasn't	1989
Pixies	Velouria	1990
Vaya Con Dios	Nah Neh Nah	1990
Massive Attack	Unfinished Sympathy	1991	Directed by Baillie Walsh
Guns N' Roses	Garden of Eden	1992	Directed by Andy Morahan
Janet Jackson	That's the Way Love Goes	1993	One-take version
Toni Braxton	Another Sad Love Song	1993	Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Die Krupps	To The Hilt	1994
Gin Blossoms	Allison Road	1994	Directed by Sean Alquist
Lisa Loeb	Stay (I Missed You)	1994	Directed by Ethan Hawke
Lucas	Lucas with the Lid Off	1994
Massive Attack	Protection	1995	Directed by Michel Gondry
Nine Inch Nails	March of the Pigs	1994
Roxette	Crash! Boom! Bang!	1994
Tom Petty	You Don't Know How It Feels	1994	Directed by Phil Joanou
Jamiroquai	Half The Man	1994
Weezer	Undone – The Sweater Song	1994	Directed by Spike Jonze
You Am I	Berlin Chair	1994
The Presidents of the United States of America	Kitty	1995	Depicted from a cat's point of view
Lords of the Underground	Neva Faded	1995
Spirit of the West	Tell Me What I Think	1995	Directed by Morris Panych
Wax	California	1995	Directed by Spike Jonze
2Pac	Made Niggaz	1996	360 Version
Alanis Morissette	Head Over Feet	1996	Directed by Michele Laurita and Alanis Morissette
Cibo Matto	Sugar Water	1996	Two continuous shots playing simultaneously
Daft Punk	Fresh	1996
Garbage	Milk	1996
Madonna	Love Don't Live Here Anymore	1996	Directed by Jean-Baptiste Mondino
Tracy Bonham	Mother Mother	1996	Directed by Jake Scott
Spice Girls	Wannabe	1996	Directed by Johan Camitz
Ben Folds Five	Kate	1997
Björk	Hunter	1997
Erykah Badu	Otherside of the Game	1997
Fiona Apple	Never Is a Promise	1997
Green Day	Redundant	1997
Mashina Vremeni	Он был старше её (He was older than she)	1997
Michael Penn	Try	1997	Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
The Tea Party	Babylon	1997
Tic Tac Toe	Bitte küss' mich nicht	1997
A Tribe Called Quest	Find A Way	1998
Semisonic	Closing Time	1998	Two continuous shots playing simultaneously
Die Ärzte	Rebell	1998
Radiohead	No Surprises	1998
Smashing Pumpkins	Ava Adore	1998
Shakira	Tú	1998
TISM	Thunderbirds are Coming Out	1998
The Tragically Hip	Poets	1998
Xzibit	What U See Is What U Get	1998
Glay	Winter, Again	1999	First version
Los Tres	No Me Falles	1999
Sky	Some Kinda Wonderful	1999
Coldplay	Yellow	2000
D'Angelo	Untitled (How Does It Feel)	2000
Destiny's Child	Emotion	2001	Three continuous shots playing simultaneously
Elton John	I Want Love	2001
Green Day	Macy's Day Parade	2001
Hawksley Workman	Jealous of Your Cigarette	2001
Hyde	Evergreen	2001
Jay-Z	Girls, Girls, Girls	2001
R.E.M.	Imitation Of Life	2001
Radiohead	Knives Out	2001
Saian Supa Crew	X Raisons	2001
Tift Merritt	Virginia, No One Can Warn You	2001
Ayumi Hamasaki	Daybreak	2002
Hikaru Utada	Hikari	2002
Koshi Inaba	ファミレス午前3時 (Family Restaurant at 3 AM)	2002	After the title card
Kylie Minogue	Come into My World	2002
Ronan Keating	I Love It When We Do	2002
Will Young with Gareth Gates	The Long and Winding Road	2002
Beginner	Fäule	2003
Christina Aguilera	The Voice Within	2003
Nicole	Vida	2003
Shania Twain	When You Kiss Me	2003	One-take version
Busted	Crashed The Wedding	2003
Gary Jules	Mad World	2003
George Michael	Flawless (Go to the City)	2004
Jorge Drexler	Milonga del moro judío	2004
Melissa Tkautz	The Glamorous Life	2005
Architecture in Helsinki	It'5	2005
Ayumi Hamasaki	Heaven	2005
Jack Johnson	Sitting, Waiting, Wishing	2005	Backwards
James Blunt	You're Beautiful	2005
Missy Higgins	The Special Two	2005
OK Go	A Million Ways	2005
The White Stripes	The Denial Twist	2005
Wir sind Helden	Nur ein Wort (Only One Word)	2005	Forwards and backwards
Dendemann	3½ Minuten	2006
Dilated Peoples	Back Again	2006
Gimma	Superschwiizer	2006
OK Go	Here It Goes Again	2006
The Rumble Strips	Motorcycle	2006
Sandi Thom	I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair)	2006
Sportfreunde Stiller	'54, '74, '90, 2006	2006
Bedouin Soundclash	Walls Fall Down	2007
Feist	1234	2007
Feist	My Moon My Man	2007
Jack Peñate	Second, Minute or Hour	2007
Kaiser Chiefs	Love's Not a Competition (But I'm Winning)	2007
Lil' Chris	We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off	2007
Linkin Park	Bleed It Out	2007
The Matches	Salty Eyes	2007
Melanie C	The Moment You Believe	2007
Panda	Los Malaventurados No Lloran	2007
Paul Kelly	God Told Me To	2007	Directed by Natasha Pinkus
Snow Patrol	Open Your Eyes	2007
Spoon	The Underdog	2007
The Weakerthans	Civil Twilight	2007
Serj Tankian	Sky Is Over	2008
Basia Bulat	In the Night	2008	Directed and produced by Anthony Seck
Dana Nalbaru	Tu	2008
Faker	Sleepwalking	2008
Feist	I Feel It All	2008
Gigi	11 Januari	2008
Goldfrapp	Happiness	2008
Duffy	Warwick Avenue	2008
Janet Jackson	Rock with U	2008
The Last Shadow Puppets	Standing Next to Me	2008
Plastic Tree	Alone Again, Wonderful World	2008
Robyn	Eclipse	2008	Directed by Blip Boutique ^[1]
Sara Bareilles	Gravity	2008
Vampire Weekend	A-Punk	2008
Vampire Weekend	Oxford Comma	2008
The Vines	He's a Rocker	2008
Arctic Monkeys	Cornerstone	2009
Ayumi Hamasaki	Curtain Call	2009
Cheryl and Will.i.am	3 Words	2009
Electric Indian	Kids These Days	2009
Jovanotti	Mezzogiorno	2009
Mayer Hawthorne	Your Easy Lovin' Ain't Pleasin' Nothin'	2009
Metric	Gimme Sympathy	2009
Myriam Fares	Ayam El Shety	2009
OK Go	WTF?	2009
Perfume	I still love U	2009
Sarah Blasko	We Won't Run	2009
Super Junior	It's You	2009
Against Me!	I Was a Teenage Anarchist	2010
Air	So Light Is Her Footfall	2010
Antonio Orozco	Llevatelo	2010
Coldplay	Christmas Lights	2010	Directed by Mat Whitecross
Cosmo Jarvis	Gay Pirates	2010
Die Roten Punkte	Bananenhaus (Banana House)	2010
Die Roten Punkte	Burger Store Dinosaur	2010
Erykah Badu	Window Seat	2010
Francis and the Lights	Darling, It's Alright	2010
Grace Potter	Something That I Want	2010	From the movie Tangled
Hikaru Utada	Goodbye Happiness	2010
J. Cole	Who Dat	2010
Janelle Monáe	Cold War	2010
Kelis	Brave	2010
Liam Frost	Good Things Are Coming Our Way	2010
Lights	Second Go	2010
Marina and the Diamonds	I Am Not a Robot	2010	LA Version; from 00:05 and onwards
OK Go	White Knuckles	2010
Pablo Alborán	Solamente Tú	2010
Säkert	Dansa fastän	2010
A Banda Mais Bonita da Cidade	Oração	2011
AKB48	Dakishimecha Ikenai	2011
Anneke van Giersbergen	Feel Alive	2011
The Black Keys	Lonely Boy	2011
Bruno Mars	The Lazy Song	2011	Official version
Childish Gambino	Freaks and Geeks	2011
Enrique Iglesias	Ayer	2011
Josh Pyke feat. Katy Steele	Punch in the Heart	2011	Two continuous shots playing simultaneously
Knifeworld	In A Foreign Way	2011
Nerina Pallot	Put Your Hands Up	2011
Robyn	Call Your Girlfriend	2011
Air Dubai feat. Patricia Lynn	Warning	2012
Dappy	Good Intentions	2012
Jessie Ware	Wildest Moments	2012
McFly	Love Is Easy	2012
The Mowgli's	San Francisco	2012
Nogizaka46	Gūzen o Iiwake ni Shite	2012
The Pierces	I Put Your Records On	2012
Scissor Sisters	Let's Have a Kiki	2012
Taylor Swift	We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together	2012
Brendan Maclean	Stupid	2013
Brendan Maclean	Winner	2013
Chris Brown	Fine China	2013	One-take version
EXO	Growl	2013
G-Eazy	Been On	2013
IU	Friday	2013
LiLi Roquelin	The Only One	2013
Lorde	Tennis Court	2013
Mel B	For Once in My Life	2013
Miley Cyrus	Wrecking Ball	2013	Director's cut version
Panic! at the Disco	Girls / Girls / Boys	2013
Pharrell Williams	Happy	2013	All versions except official edit
Phosphorescent	Song for Zula	2013
Pusha T	Nosetalgia	2013
Sam Tsui	Make It Up	2013
Skating Polly	Blue Obvious	2013
Sam Smith	Lay Me Down	2013	Re-released in 2015
Violent Soho	Covered in Chrome	2013
Bush	The Only Way Out	2014
clipping.	Work Work	2014
FKA twigs	Two Weeks	2014
Jane Zhang	我是我的 (I Am Mine)	2014
Kaiser Chiefs	Coming Home	2014
Kiesza	Hideaway	2014
Kiesza	What is Love	2014
Klangkarussell	All Eyes On You	2014
Lights	Up We Go	2014
Meg Mac	Roll Up Your Sleeves	2014	Australian version
Metronomy	Love Letters	2014
OK Go	I Won't Let You Down	2014
OK Go	The Writing's on the Wall	2014
Sia	Chandelier	2014	Alternative version
Super Junior	This Is Love^[2]	2014
TVXQ	Spellbound	2014
Violent Soho	Saramona Said	2014
Wankelmut feat. John Lamonica	Wasted So Much Time	2014
Screaming Females	Ripe	2014
"Weird Al" Yankovic	Tacky	2014
Wiz Khalifa	We Dem Boyz	2014
5'nizza	I Believe in You	2015
AURORA	Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)	2015
Avicii	Waiting for Love	2015	360 version
Between the Buried and Me	The Coma Machine	2015
Dil Dhadakne Do	Gallan Goodiyaan	2015
The Dodos	Competition	2015
Example	Whisky Story	2015
Gwen Stefani	Used to Love You	2015
Travie McCoy feat. Sia	Golden	2015
Highly Suspect	Lydia	2015
Jess Glynne	Take Me Home	2015	One-take version
Julien Baker	Sprained Ankle	2015
Marian Hill	One Time	2015
MIKA	Last Party	2015	Black and white version
Olly Murs	Seasons	2015
Skepta	Nasty	2015
The Social Experiment	Sunday Candy	2015
Avatar	The Eagle Has Landed	2016
BTS	Save Me	2016
The Chemical Brothers feat. Beck	Wide Open	2016
Dusky feat. Solomon Grey	Long Wait	2016	Directed by Noel Paul
FEMM	Whiplash	2016
Mike Posner	I Took a Pill in Ibiza	2016	Original version
Mischief Brew	Squatter Envy	2016
NAVI	Historyja majho žyccia	2016
Samra	Miracle	2016
Tove Lo	True Disaster	2016
Arcade Fire	Creature Comfort	2017
Bleachers	I Miss Those Days	2017
Bruno Mars	That's What I Like	2017
Cavetown	Lemon Boy	2017
Danielle Bregoli	These Heaux	2017
Eamon	I Got Soul	2017
Fozzy	Judas	2017	Based on Guns N' Roses' "Garden of Eden"
Fozzy	Painless	2017
Gotch	Taxi Driver	2017
Haim	Want You Back	2017
LANY	Super Far	2017
Lauv	Paris in the Rain	2017
Liam Payne feat. Quavo	Strip That Down (Dance Video)	2017
Lorie	La vie est belle	2017
Mondo Grosso feat. Hikari Mitsushima	Labyrinth	2017
Orelsan	Basique	2017
Sabrina Carpenter	Thumbs	2017
Selena Gomez feat. Gucci Mane	Fetish (Audio Video)	2017
Snakehips feat. MØ	Don't Leave (Lyric Video)	2017
SOPHIE	It's Okay to Cry	2017
Superfruit	How Ya Feeling	2017
YouthK Saeki	ナウオアネバー (Now or Never)	2017	Shot entirely in reverse, evidently by passing traffic.^[3]
Benny Blanco & Calvin Harris	I Found You	2018
Betty Who	Ignore Me	2018
Billie Eilish	when the party's over	2018
Cobi	Church of the Lonely	2018
Death Valley Girls	Disaster (Is What We're After)	2018	Starring Iggy Pop
Gesu no Kiwami Otome	Onna wa Kawaru	2018
Halsey	Sorry	2018
In Flames	I Am Above	2018
Justin Timberlake feat. Chris Stapleton	Say Something	2018
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu	Kimino Mikata	2018
Lele Pons	Celoso	2018
Malú	Ciudad de Papel	2018
Maroon 5 & Cardi B	Girls Like You	2018	Includes cameo from Ellen DeGeneres
Męskie Granie	Początek	2018
Mojo Juju	Native Tongue	2018
Poolside	Feel Alright Nashville	2018
STU48	Kaze wo Matsu	2018
Toro y Moi	Ordinary Pleasure	2018	Directed by Mancy Gant
Alice Chater	Hourglass	2018
Benny blanco, Tainy, Selena Gomez, J Balvin	I Can't Get Enough	2019
Birds of Tokyo	Good Lord	2019
Bleached	Shitty Ballet	2019
Daisy the Great	I'm Fine	2019
Example	All Night	2019
Gesu no Kiwami Otome	Dakedo Boku wa	2019
Gian Marco	Me Gusta Mi Soledad	2019
Hinatazaka46	"Konna ni Suki ni Natchatte Ii no?"	2019	"Hit prayer" version only^[4]
Jackson Wang	Dway!	2019
Jessica Mauboy	Little Things	2019
Karen O & Danger Mouse	Woman	2019	Directed by Spike Jonze; live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
LANY	Thick and Thin	2019
Maroon 5	Memories	2019
Naif & Indra Lesmana	Selama Ada Cinta	2019	Directed by Budi Cuprit, recorded in 2016
Nightly	Twenty Something	2019
Scarlxrd	GXLD	2019
Steam Powered Giraffe	Hot on the Trail	2019
The Weeknd	Heartless	2019	Live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Against the Current	That Won't Save Us	2020
Cher Lloyd	Lost	2020
The Chicks	Sleep at Night	2020
Dance Gavin Dance	Prisoner	2020
Haim	Don't Wanna	2020
Yseult	Corps	2020	Directed By Colin Solal Cardo
Madysin Hatter	Nobody's Fault	2020
Scarlxrd	CXLD BLXXDED	2020
Shawn Mendes & Justin Bieber	Monster	2020
Sia	Together	2020
Victoria	Tears Getting Sober	2020
Tim Minchin	The Absence Of You	2020	Directed by Ben Lucas
Yelle	Je t'aime encore	2020
Ashe & FINNEAS	Till Forever Falls Apart	2021
Camilo	Pesadilla	2021
Coldplay	Higher Power	2021	Official audio // Extra-terrestrial transmission
Giring Ganesha	Tahan Dulu	2021
Kings of Convenience	Rocky Trail	2021
Los Fastidios	Pour La Liberté	2021	Official videoclip
MIKE	Evil Eye	2021	Two continuous shots playing simultaneously
sumika	Shake & Shake	2021	Directed by Gen Natsume
Abraham Mateo	Ahora Te Puedes Marchar	2022
Amyl and the Sniffers	Maggot	2022	Live from Williamstown
Ashkan Khatibi & Qaziso ft. Amir Azimi	Migorizi	2022	Directed by Ashkan Khatibi & Amir Pakdel
Kendrick Lamar	The Heart Part 5	2022	Directed By Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free
Kendrick Lamar ft. Taylour Paige	We Cry Together	2022	Directed By Jake Schreier, Kendrick Lamar and Dave Free
Muna	Kind of Girl	2022	Directed by Taylor James
Paulo Londra	Chance	2022
Sea Girls	DNA	2022
The Smashing Pumpkins	Beguiled	2022
Tasman Keith	Love Too Soon	2022
Tegan and Sara	Yellow	2022
Behm	Sata vuotta	2023	Video reversed and slowed down to 0.5x speed after filming
Billie Eilish	What Was I Made For?	2023
Jason Mraz	I Feel Like Dancing	2023
Miley Cyrus	Used To Be Young	2023
Ren	Animal Flow	2023	Directed by Ren
Spiritbox	Ultraviolet	2023	Directed by Dylan Hryciuk (uses multiple frame-rates and makes a seamless loop)
Coldplay	Feels Like I'm Falling in Love (Zerb Remix)	2024	Filmed by Ant Barret
Emily Wurramara featuring Arringarri	STFAFM ^[5]	2024

Videos seemingly shot in one take

Split Enz – "Message to My Girl", 1984

This video was shot in two extended takes, with the only edit obscured at 2:32 when Neil Finn walks through a stage set door.^[6]

John Fogerty – "The Old Man Down the Road", 1985

Contains several edits disguised by dissolves, particularly when the camera is pointing down at the ground and the dissolves are less noticeable due to motion blur.

U2 – "Numb", 1993

The video was spliced together from two separate takes. The cut between the two happens when the camera turns away from the face of guitarist, and singer on this track, The Edge and the cut was hidden by having smoke blowing in from the side of the frame.

Primus – "Mr. Krinkle", 1993

One shutter camera cut at 5:26 at the end of the video

Jamiroquai – "Virtual Insanity", 1996

The video contains several cuts when the camera tilts down, transitioning into another shot when it tilts up again.

Eagle-Eye Cherry – "Save Tonight", 1997

Several hidden cuts when Eagle-Eye Cherry changes the character he's portraying.

U2 – "Sweetest Thing", 1998

In a Channel 4, documentary discussing the Greatest Pop Videos of all time, the director Kevin Godley revealed that it was filmed in 3 shots, each shot transition hidden by a lens flare.^[7]

Kylie Minogue – "Love at First Sight", 2002

The video-editing process is the same as "Virtual Insanity" by Jamiroquai.

The Chemical Brothers – "Star Guitar", 2002

The music video, directed by Michel Gondry, features a seemingly continuous shot, but it includes footage taken at different times of the day, and is assembled from repeated sequences.

Will Young – "Leave Right Now", 2003

The video is seemingly one continuous shot, chaos ensues in an art gallery.

The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army", 2003

The video is one seemingly continuous shot through a kaleidoscopic tunnel of mirrored black, white and red triangles.

Alanis Morissette – "Everything", 2004

The video appears to be one shot but features several cuts where the camera pans upwards.

Miley Cyrus – "Start All Over", 2007

At the end of the video it has four cuts.

Khalil Fong – "紅豆 (Red Beans)", 2009

Hidden cuts during camera moves.

MIKA – "Blame it on the Girls", 2009

Hidden cuts from swift camera movement.

OK Go – "This Too Shall Pass", 2010 – Rube Goldberg Machine video

In interviews, band member Damian Kulash and visual designer Hector Alvarez both admit to a cut at 2:27 when the curtain opens.^[8]

Brian McFadden Featuring Kevin Rudolf – Just Say So, 2010

The video was done in one shot and lip synced backwards to allow for McFadden to still be in sync while the video goes backwards.

LCD Soundsystem – "Drunk Girls", 2010

The video is a long take until near the end, when a few cuts are introduced.

Kanye West – "Mercy", 2012

The video is made of multiple long takes superimposed over one another.

One Direction – "You & I", 2014

The video was actually stitched from multiple takes to create the illusion of a single, continuous shot.

Sia – "Big Girls Cry", 2014

The video contains a black cut at 1:12.

Ariana Grande – "One Last Time", 2015

The video contains multiple cuts, while the screen fades to black.

Maroon 5 – "This Summer's Gonna Hurt like a Motherfucker", 2015

Co-director Travis Schneider stated in an interview that although the video was planned to be one shot, there is one cut in the video.

Era Istrefi – "Bonbon", 2015

There are several cuts in the video, starting from 2:25 to the end.

OK Go – "Upside Down & Inside Out", 2016

Though the video, involving the band using parabolic flight from reduced-gravity aircraft to simulate micro-gravity, is from one long 40-45 minute shot, periods when the band is not in micro-gravity were trimmed from the final product.

OneRepublic – "Kids", 2016

There are some cuts and the camera moves at 0:36

Jessie Reyez - "Figures", 2016

Couple of cuts starting at 0:08

OK Go – "The One Moment", 2016

The video drastically slows down playback of about 4.2 seconds of actions that take place in real-time. However, to capture the amount of action, the band had to use multiple high-speed cameras on the same mounted system, their respective footage stitched together to compose the final video.